On Sat, 17 Feb 2018, acorn12 wrote:

> As I need to check the status of a POP3 mailbox and retrieve all header
> information about all messages, I am currently using one call to libcurl per
> message. For a dozen or more messages, this can be relatively slow as it
> requires a transaction per call.

Define "transaction" ? libcurl doesn't need to close the connection nor redo
the login between invokes.

> Is it possible to accomplish this with libcurl and if so, how can I
> implement such a scheme?

By reusing the easy handle, subsequent calls to curl_easy_perform() should be
pretty quick.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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